NZ Politics Daily - 16 May 2018
16 May 2018
Today's content
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Budget and tax
Sarah Robson (RNZ): Budget could be cold comfort for poorest citizens
Audrey Young (Herald): Finance Minister Grant Robertson says Budget belongs to one Govt, not one party
Grant Duncan (The Conversation): NZ budget 2018: election promises and real-life tests
Bryce Edwards (Newsroom): Don’t believe the Budget hype
Brian Easton (Briefing Papers): Is the government Austerian?
Amy Adams (Herald): Careless fiscal strategy will send nation into decline
Laura Walters (Stuff): Budget 2018: $2m for NZ's biggest longitudinal study about growing up in NZ
Herald: Funding boost of $1.9 million propels longitudinal Growing Up in New Zealand study to next stage
Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Govt considering breaking pledge to increase police numbers
Chelsea Boyle (Herald): Law and order Budget preview: more front-line police expected
1News: Budget 2018 to 'set out the steps' for a transition to low-carbon economy
Aimee Shaw (Herald): What the small-business sector wants to see from Labour-led Government's first budget
Anuja Nadkarni (Stuff): Business leaders expect Budget 2018 to have negative impact on economy: Survey
Phil O'Reilly (Herald): An economic plan lets business community know what matters to the Government
Jo Moir (Stuff): First pages of the Government's Budget goes to print ahead of Budget Day
Gordon Campbell: On regressive taxes, and Frightened Rabbit
Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Addiction to cigarette taxes rising to $2.2b
Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour): Regressive excise
Primary industries
Rachel Stewart (Herald): Ministry's cunning plan fails to stop M. bovis cattle disease
Brian Rudman (Herald): Farmers should cope with bug on their own
David Williams (Newsroom): Why NAIT failed – and what’s being done to fix it
BusinessDesk: Is MPI ignoring M. bovis risks on Gypsy Day?
Richard Harman (Politik): Labour supports NZ First debt relief proposal
Jamie Gray (Herald): Cow disease Mycoplasma bovis a 'risk on the radar' for the economy
Herald: Mycoplasma bovis outbreak could cost a 'significant' amount, Finance Minister Grant Robertson says
Gerald Piddock (Stuff): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern slams 'shameful' under investment in biosecurity
Herald Editorial: Rapid spread of cattle disease a $60 million wake-up call
Te Ahua Maitland and Gerald Piddock (Stuff): Officials in gun as Mycoplasma bovis arrives in Waikato
Gerald Piddock (Stuff): Culling infected herds takes 'huge mental toll' on farmers
Gerald Piddock (Stuff): Positive test for Mycoplasma bovis cattle disease a huge blow for farmer
RNZ: M Bovis spread: MPI monitoring farms in Waikato
Marty Sharpe (Stuff): Fine of $225,000 for dirty dairying will go unpaid because companies are broke
RNZ: 'Huge shift' as farmers clean up their act
Eric Frykberg (RNZ): New strain of rabbit calicivirus found in New Zealand
Jane Clifton (Listener): David Parker is weirdly relaxed about the pain involved in rethinking dairy
Housing
Isaac Davison (Herlad): Government looking at shared equity scheme for first-home buyers
Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Budget won't do much for housing crisis
Benedict Collins (RNZ): State housing waiting list 'shockingly high'
Herald: New Zealand's state house waiting list surges 26 per cent
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Public housing waitlist skyrockets to 7890, the largest spike in four years
Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Waitlist for state housing has doubled in past two years
Tom Hunt (Dominion Post): 1000-plus Wellingtonians hunker down for winter on state house waiting list
Kevin Atkinson (Herald): New ways of financing are needed to boost house building
Employment
Thomas Manch (Stuff): New Zealand's 'working poor' and the push to understand how many are struggling
Thomas Manch (Stuff): When the wages aren't enough: Government commissions 'working poor' study
Zac Fleming (RNZ): Two more retail chains caught underpaying staff
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Cotton On, Harvey Norman staff work overtime for free – union
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): Outrage at jobs below minimum wage: 'They're being exploited'
Human Rights Commission
Harrison Christian (Stuff): Analysis: The road to the truth about the Human Rights Commission
Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Changes likely at ‘toxic’ Human Rights Commission
Laura Walters and Harrison Christian (Stuff): Human Rights Commission failed following sexual harassment claims – review
RNZ: Sexual harassment at Commission, but 'not endemic'
Herald: Sexual harrassment confirmed at Human Rights Commission, handling criticized
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Human Rights Commission 'failed' in dealing with sexual harassment claims
Retail surveillance and privacy
Madison Reidy (Stuff): Prime minister expresses concern over facial recognition technology used by supermarkets
Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Barriers to facial recognition technology are tumbling down
Local government
Sam Kilmister and Janine Rankin (Manawatu Standard): Manawatū Māori wards vote a resounding 'no'
Simon Wilson (Herald): Auckland Council to save $117 million by selling seven buildings
Grant Miller (Manawatu Standard): People should not feel hemmed in by council consultation
Adrian Orr and Super Fund
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Super Fund's interest in Auckland rail proves nothing more than its desire to make money
Hamish Rutherford (Stuff): Former earthquake recovery minister 'incensed' by Reserve Bank governor's rebuild comments
Health and state care of children
Peter Adams (Newsroom): A good example of curbing booze-related harm
Kirsty Johnston (Herald): 'Disgusting', 'nonsense', 'appalling' family carers' policy slammed in new report
Danielle Clent (Stuff): Government inquiry into historic abuse in state care won't help all victims, law firm says
Tom Kitchin (ODT): 'Huge blow' for Roxburgh as Stand confirms closure of children's village
Eleanor Wenman (Stuff): Call for more workers to join health and wellbeing sectors
Kyle MacDonald (Spinoff): Chemo works, so we fund it properly. Why not do the same for counselling?
Teuila Fuatai (Newsroom): Surgical mesh could contain dodgy Chinese plastic
Treaty settlements
Chris Bramwell (RNZ): Govt under pressure to resolve treaty overlap claims
Talisa Kupenga (Māori TV): Labour only party to front at Tauranga Moana Treaty protest
Raniera Harrison (Māori TV): Treaty claim status quo untenable - Ngāti Wai
RNZ: Angry Kaumātua confronts Little: ‘You are taking us to war’
Māori TV: Tauranga Moana oppose Hauraki settlement
Parliament
Herald: Fashion designers gift clothing to PM Jacinda Ardern and Paula Bennett
Jason Walls (Interest): Parliament's register of pecuniary interests turns up everything from property ownership, tickets to Adele, income from work as a celebrity dancer & a strange alcohol drinking flask
Henry Cooke (Stuff): Tickets, expensive pens, and an 'alcohol drinking flask' - All of the gifts MPs received last year
David Farrar (Kiwiblog): 2018 register of MPs Interests
Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Newshub investigates: Which National MP made a 'very sexist remark' about Jacinda Ardern?
Laine Moger (Stuff): Dope advocate, treaty-scrapper and anti-vaxxer among Northcote by-election candidates
Justice and police
Andy Fyers (Stuff): The impact in New Zealand of two decades of being 'tough on crime'
Laura Walters (Stuff): Criminal justice system 'not rehabilitating anyone' - Green MP
Tracey McIntosh (Auckland University): What would the world be like without prisons?
Heather Roy: Policy the Prisoner of Corrections
Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): Dear Andrew Little – how to sell the new mega-prison to NZ and save your progressive reputation
No Right Turn: The police break the law
Canterbury quakes
RNZ: Southern Response settles over class action
RNZ: EQC discovers 1000 more unresolved claims
Foreign affairs and trade
Claire Trevett (Herald): New Zealand to call in Israeli ambassador over Gaza deaths
Jane Patterson (RNZ): NZ condemns Israel's actions along Gaza border
Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Jacinda Ardern: Gaza deaths show US Embassy move to Jerusalem hurt chance of peace
Emma Hurley (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern condemns 'devastating one-sided loss of life' in Jerusalem
Transport
Newshub: Shane Jones launches another attack at Air NZ over domestic price increases
Claire Trevett (Herald): Regions Minister Shane Jones takes jab at Air NZ again after price-hike news
Grant Bradley (Herald): Air New Zealand fares going up by 5 per cent on domestic routes from Thursday
Inequality and poverty
Carmen Parahi and Simon Shepherd (Stuff and Newshub): A tale of two cities
Carmen Parahi and Simon Shepherd (Stuff and Newshub): A tale of two cities – Part 2
Carmen Parahi and Simon Shepherd (Stuff and Newshub): A tale of two cities – Part 3
Environment
Rebecca Macfie (Listener): NZ needs to plant more trees to combat climate change – but what kind and where?
RNZ: Te Mata Peak row: Iwi treated 'like dumb savages'
Nicki Harper (Hawke’s Bay Today): Craggy Range has taken 'principled approach' over track
Muriel Newman (NZCPR): A Society of Equals
Eloise Gibson (Newsroom): Three ways climate change might affect your health
Education
RNZ: Early childhood teachers working unpaid hours
RNZ: First charter school signs up to state system
Media
Herald: TVNZ shifting political talk show Q+A to prime-time spot
Stuff: 'Serious technical issue' prevents Prime News going to air
Pacific Islands Super Rugby team
Dominion Post Editorial: Finally, a rugby reset worth watching
RNZ: Super team would breathe life into Pacific Island rugby
Other
Peter Lyon (ODT): Where oligopolies rule
Brian Easton (Pundit): Heke Tangata, Māori in Markets and Cities
Luke Harding (Guardian): Billionaire Christopher Chandler denies spy claims
Jonathan Mitchell (RNZ): Special office to handle Afghan raid inquiry
Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Government hunts for people to go down Pike River mine
Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Law Society ends inquiry over judge criticism
Stuff: No further action taken against Auckland lawyer who criticised judge
Mark Jennings (Newsroom): Police called to Israel PM doco screening